Filing-cabinet.



E. G. HOLLAND.

FILINQ CABINET. APPLICATION FILED MAB.19, 1906.

933,755. I Patented Sept. 14. 1909.

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APPLICATION FILED MAR. 19, 1906.

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To all whom it may concern: 1

Be it known that I, ELIAS C. HOLLAND, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Benton Harbor, in the, State of Michigan, have invented certain new-and useful Improvements in Filing-Cabinets, of

which the following is a full and exa'ctldevvice and consist of highly finlshed metal scription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

' My invention relates to that class of cabinets wherein a number of drawers or receptacles are rovided to receive documents, and has spec1a reference to those cabinets constructed of metal, or of materials less rigid than wood. v 3 e I In the @art of metal filing cabinets, in-- ventors have universally heretofore employed boiler construction, whereby steel plates are riveted together in box like form,

and disregard of substantiability and y purpose is to produce a cabinet so constructed that the completed device will possess all the rigidit of the well known wood cabinets. In or er to effect this end, I employ mill construction, building my cabinet-in skeleton frame giving to this frame all the rigidityand strength desired, and using the said steel plates principally to fin-- ish or cover the device. My invention herein therefore resides in this novel construction and the other improvements hereinafter described.

In the drawings, Figure 1 illustrates in perspective, two sections of my cabinet secured side by side, with the side of one of them broken away, exposing my machine construction. Fig. 2 illustrates a vertical section of my roller track upon which the drawers of my cabinet operate. Fig. 3 shows a vertical section of my drawer support. Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional viewv of my drawer, and-Fig. 5 shows Figs. 2, 3 and 4 in their operative relation with each other. Figs. 6, 7 and are plan views of Figs. 2, 3 and 4 respectively and Fig. 9 is front elevation in section of my device.

More particularly described, A represents" the skeleton frame of my cabinet, and consists of two rectangular steel hoopsa, a, secured together by cross braces, broadheavy castings a a. The said cross braces aa v are so distributed in relation with the elevav I aim ofthe cabinet as to form the track for the drawers of the cabinet. I In view of this added function, I construct the braces a a" withprojecting shoulders a and a fand the and 9. p B represents the cover plates of my deplates removably secured to the said skele-. ton A by any suitable means. I secure the plates removably, in order that when two or more cabinets are to be secured together the intervening plates can be removed and the frames of'the two cabinets be secured together, effecting a, better finished device.

support engages the bottom of the said drawer C and the shoulders a a as shown in Fig. 9 and rides upon the rollers E E secured in suitable bear ngs injt'he lugs a a. Upon the bottom of the drawer C, I provide a stop C which engages the drawer support D as the drawer is pulled outward. In closing the drawer the front of the same projects 0 and engages the said support D,

- ELIAS C. HOLLAND.

Witnesses:

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roller bearing lugs a, as shown-in Figs. 2-

by cross ieces cl d. This frame or drawer thereby retiring the same. To the support" ELIAS o. HOLLAND, or BENTON amen, mgiamassmaon ,roa METAL. S moan Specification of Letters Patented S ept. 1 1,1909 

